"It was a relatively calm night," a police spokesman said. The interior ministry said there had been "few incidents".
A total of 277 vehicles were set on fire across the country, according to Le Monde newspaper, but the authorities refused to confirm the figure.
That figure was only three times higher than the number of vehicles torched on a normal day in France.
It is interesting that the car burnings are usually a little under one hundred per day. I have no idea how may cars are burned on a normal day in America so I guess I can't really say whether this is a case of denial or really relatively calm by rational standards.
Perhaps the French have avoided unpleasantness this year. I sincerely wish the French good luck on this.
